Donate rice and test your vocabulary

Very cool -- http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Marumushi newsmap

Very cool: graphical, interactive display of current news: newsmap

25 sites to watch

interesting piece in PC World on 25 up and coming(?) web sites to watch....

Link here.

Online market share resource

This is a great online resource for a quick overview of marketshare for various operating systems, browsers, and search engines: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/

Browser share: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0
Search Engine share: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0
OS Share: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

All data provided by > Net Applications

New online outlets for political junkies

Interesting piece from today's wsj.com. One hopes that these sites will also help educate voters and encourage them to vote, rather than just creating venues for political-advertising dollars.

1st Annual YouTube Awards

The first annual YouTube Video Awards were released this week. I wonder if we'll enter a world in which awards for this type of user-generated content (awards, by the way, which are selected by the users) will rival in stature the awards given for professional-generated content in awards ceremonies such as the Oscars, Golden Globes, etc. Might an Online Video Award one day garner the same attention and coveted status as a little gold statuette?

Awards available here: http://www.youtube.com/ytawards.

I have to admit the only winner I knew was the OKGo treadmill choreography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI. Free Hugs is also great.

Media production and consumption: times they are a changin'.